Lisa Lundsgaard R.N.,BSN,CNOR,RNFA

• Assist the surgeon in procedures of neurosurgery, general surgery, GYN, plastic, and reconstructive surgeries.
• Suture according to the surgeon's preferences.
• Dressing application, including wound vacuum devices.

University of California,Davis Campus,Sacramento,CA

Travel RN primarily in scrub role during large, complex surgical procedures with the ability to shift into circulating or RNFA role when needed.

Sutter Health,Alta Bates Summit Medical Center,Oakland CA.

Travel RN in main operating room as circulator, scrub, and RNFA role when needed.

• Directly assist surgeons with positioning,draping,hemostasis,wound exposure,suturing and dressing application.
• Completed 120 hours of clinical time required to obtain RNFA certification.

• Participated in continuing education for Surgical Technologist, Residents, Medical students, and Registered Nurses to enhance knowledge of surgical procedures.
• Provide perioperative nursing care to military personnel and families of military personnel.

• Prepare the operating room for major surgical procedures by assessing the patient, consents, and lab data.
• Proficiently scrub and circulate in specialties that include trauma, orthopedics, neurosurgery, general, vascular, spinal, E.N.T., GYN-Oncology, and reconstructive plastics.

• Indian River Medical Center, Vero Beach, FL, Circulating RN, multi-specialty, 1 assignment.
• John Muir Medical Center Walnut Creek, CA Level-1 trauma center. Scrub and circulate, multi-specialties, 1 assignment
• Stanford University Hospital and Clinics Palo Alto, CA Level-1 trauma, academic center Circulating RN, Neurosurgical team, 2 assignments, orthopedic team, 2 assignments.
• Summit Medical Center Frisco, CO Circulating RN, orthopedic trauma 1 assignment.
• Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon, NH Level-1 trauma, academic center. Scrub and Circulate, neurosurgical team, 3 assignments, general surgery team, 1 assignment.

• Demonstrated proficiency and flexibility in circulating and scrub roles in specialties including organ transplant, trauma, orthopedic, neurosurgery, pediatrics.
• Peri-operative training of RN's, residents, and medical students to improve performance in surgical procedures and sterile techniques.

• Utilize critical thinking skills and collaborate with physicians and ancillary staff for effective management of critically ill patients.
• Titration of multiple medications to manage support of critically ill patients.

• First-Assist and scrub multi-procedures in level 2 trauma center.
• Collaborated with surgical team to prepare for scheduled and trauma related procedures.